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British physicist
Helen Fay Dowker (; born 9 September 1965) is a British physicist who is a current professor of
theoretical physics at
Imperial College London .
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Education
Dowker attended
Manchester High School for Girls .
[9] As a student, she was interested in
wormholes and
quantum cosmology . Having studied the
Mathematical Tripos at the
University of Cambridge , Dowker was awarded the
Tyson Medal in 1987 and completed her Doctor of Philosophy for research on
spacetime
wormholes supervised by
Stephen Hawking
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[3] in 1990.
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Career and research
Dowker completed
postdoctoral research at
Fermilab , at the
University of California, Santa Barbara and also the
California Institute of Technology .
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Until 2003, Dowker was a lecturer at
Queen Mary University of London .
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She is currently a professor of Theoretical Physics and a member of the Theoretical Physics Group at
Imperial College London and a Visiting Fellow at the
Perimeter Institute .
[14] She conducts research in a number of areas of theoretical physics including
quantum gravity and
causal set theory .
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Personal life
Dowker is the daughter of physicist Stuart Dowker, who worked at the
University of Manchester .
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[19] She was interviewed by
Jim Al-Khalili for
The Life Scientific in 2017.
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She delivered the eulogy at
Stephen Hawking 's funeral, describing him as her "teacher, mentor and friend" and asserting that "his influence and legacy will live forever."
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References
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Al-Khalili, Jim (2017).
"Fay Dowker on a new theory of space-time" . BBC.
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Fay Dowker at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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c Dowker, Helen Fay (1990).
Space-time wormholes . ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
839406193 .
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Fay Dowker publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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Dowker, Fay ; Gauntlett, Jerome P.; Kastor, David A.;
Traschen, Jennie (1994). "Pair creation of dilaton black holes".
Physical Review D . 49 (6): 2909–2917.
arXiv :
hep-th/9309075 .
Bibcode :
1994PhRvD..49.2909D .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2909 .
PMID
10017283 .
S2CID
15303024 .
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Dowker, Fay ; Gauntlett, Jerome P.;
Giddings, Steven B. ; Horowitz, Gary T. (1994). "Pair creation of extremal black holes and Kaluza-Klein monopoles".
Physical Review D . 50 (4): 2662–2679.
arXiv :
hep-th/9312172 .
Bibcode :
1994PhRvD..50.2662D .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.2662 .
PMID
10017899 .
S2CID
7270273 .
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Dowker, Fay ; Gauntlett, Jerome P.; Gibbons, Gary W.; Horowitz, Gary T. (1995). "Decay of magnetic fields in Kaluza-Klein theory".
Physical Review D . 52 (12): 6929–6940.
arXiv :
hep-th/9507143 .
Bibcode :
1995PhRvD..52.6929D .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6929 .
PMID
10019234 .
S2CID
16857664 .
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Fay Dowker at
IMDb
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"A Brief History of Time at Manchester High" . JLife Magazine . 12 November 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2023 .
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"Former Students" . hawking.org.uk . Stephen Hawking. Archived from
the original on 28 February 2009.
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Dowker, Fay Page at Imperial College London
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Dowker, Fay Personal webpage (last updated 2003)
Archived 9 April 2006 at the
Wayback Machine
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History Theoretical Physics Group, Imperial College London
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Fay Dowker, Perimeter Institute
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Dowker, Fay (2013). "Introduction to causal sets and their phenomenology".
General Relativity and Gravitation . 45 (9): 1651–1667.
Bibcode :
2013GReGr..45.1651D .
doi :
10.1007/s10714-013-1569-y .
S2CID
119465367 .
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Dowker, Fay ; Glaser, Lisa (2013). "Causal set d'Alembertians for various dimensions". Classical and Quantum Gravity . 30 (19): 195016.
arXiv :
1305.2588 .
Bibcode :
2013CQGra..30s5016D .
doi :
10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195016 .
S2CID
119181630 .
^ Afshordi, Niayesh; Buck, Michel;
Dowker, Fay ; Rideout, David;
Sorkin, Rafael D. ; Yazdi, Yasaman K. (2012). "A ground state for the causal diamond in 2 dimensions".
Journal of High Energy Physics . 2012 (10): 88.
arXiv :
1207.7101 .
Bibcode :
2012JHEP...10..088A .
doi :
10.1007/JHEP10(2012)088 .
S2CID
119182974 .
^ Anon (2015).
"Stuart Dowker" . University of Manchester. Archived from
the original on 18 May 2017.
^ Dowker, Fay; Elizalde, Emilio; Kirsten, Klaus (2012). "Applications of zeta functions and other spectral functions in mathematics and physics: a special issue in honour of Stuart Dowker's 75th birthday". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical . 45 (37): 370301.
Bibcode :
2012JPhA...45a0101D .
doi :
10.1088/1751-8113/45/37/370301 .
ISSN
1751-8113 .
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"Prof Stephen Hawking funeral: Legacy 'will live forever' " .
BBC News . 31 March 2018.
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